Item 26 - EIR No. 2020-03 and GPA No.2020-06 Santa Ana General Plan Update

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County Register, a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Santa Ana —stating that an environmental impact report would be prepared; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21083.9 and CEQA Guidelines Sections 15082(c) and 15083, the City held a duly noticed scoping meeting on March 5, 2020, to solicit comments on the scope of the environmental review of the proposed project; and WHEREAS, a Draft Program Environmental Impact Report ("Draft PEIR") (State Clearinghouse No. 2020029087) was prepared for the proposed project addressing comments received in response to the Notice of Preparation and evaluating the proposed project's potentially significant environmental impacts; and WHEREAS, the Draft PEIR identified five significant and unavoidable impacts associated with the project that pertain to Air Quality, Cultural Resources, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Noise, and Population and Housing; and WHEREAS, the Draft PEIR further determined that the proposed project would require mitigation related to air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, and tribal cultural resources; and WHEREAS, consistent with State CEQA Guidelines Section 15087(e), the Draft PEIR was circulated for review and comment to the public, City Council, Planning Commission, local, regional and state agencies, and interested parties for a 45-day review period, from August 3, 2020, to September 16, 2020, a period that was extended thereafter to October 6, 2020; and WHEREAS, the City released the Final PEIR, which consists of the Draft PEIR, all technical appendices prepared in support of the Draft PEIR, all written comment letters received on the Draft PEIR, errata to the Draft PEIR and technical appendices; and WHEREAS, on November 9, 2020, the Planning Commission conducted a duly noticed public hearing to consider the Final PEIR and General Plan Update, at which the Planning Commission voted not to certify the Final PEIR and continue work on the General Plan Update to a future date to allow additional time for outreach to Santa Ana's environmental justice (EJ) communities and in view of the COVID-19 pandemic; and WHEREAS, in 2021, a Recirculated Draft Program Environmental Impact Report ("Recirculated Draft PEIR") was prepared as a supplemental analysis to the original Draft PEIR to reflect updates to the project and based on an intensive, extended Resolution No. 2021-XXX Page 2of7